March 19th, 2010

If anyone had any doubts with regard to the importance of the economy to the majority of Democrats on Capital Hill before these past few weeks, those doubts should be laid to rest as of now. Nothing--but NOTHING--is apparently more important to the leftward Politicians in Washington than healthcare coverage, despite a still soured economy and a soaring deficit. The Democrats, as of now, do not have the votes necessary to pass the Bill. While this "could" obviously change, it is certain that the increased vigor of Citizens both calling and traveling to Washington is having a profound effect.

But if Healthcare by some wretched miracle should indeed pass, we appear now doomed along with most of the other citizens of the planet to be stuck here on Earth. You see, we Americans now have the unfortunate news that the Space Program has been severely curtailed by the President who has dropped the Ares-1 Rocket Program. No doubt in at least a partial effort to keep us all on the planet as "escape velocity" seems no longer an option and Healthcare resistance is futile--according to the Mainstream Media. At least we do now have a more plausible explanation for retiring the launch vehicles while the Liberals remain in charge--for a little while longer.

Coffee or Tea? Next up: "Beer Party"

So, shall you have a Coffee or Tea Party while you wait? It would appear that we now have a pastel of multiple options even in our political activism which begs the question: Is this a great country or what? The Coffee Party, in fact, seems to be the feeble, mewlingly-moderate answer to the potent Tea Party coalition. This recent and defanged version of Tea Parties seems more like an Eunuch in a Cathouse as to its effectiveness at accomplishing the "desired" task at hand. Congress is in for "big trouble" if a "Beer Party" comes to fruition.

But as the suspense continues to build with Healthcare, many in America are wishing for this particular legislative ride to come to an end. What began as a promise for change has turned into a roller coaster ride through the Financial House of Horrors that then blasts into some cultural alien landscape which is unrecognizable in its feel--and yet hauntingly familiar in its appearance. While the ride zooms precariously into turn after harrowing turn, corkscrewing through the Land of Honey and then rocketing upwards as if heading into the throes of financial orbit--only to stall and clank haphazardly back down into the bowels of bankrupted abyss. This is our new political, financial and cultural climate where nothing is as it actually seems--nor seems to be as it was. A Brave New World, indeed.

I'll Have an EMTALA with Refried Beans, Please

We have a large number of politicians who insist that something must be done about medical care, while disingenuously insisting that thousands die every day as a result of want for it. Meanwhile, the true but not widely reported fact remains that anyone who requires medical treatment in the US cannot be denied. This as a result of a law passed in 1986 known as the EMTALA Act. The act simply states that both hospitals and ambulance providers cannot withhold treatment for any medical emergency, subject to extreme fines per case.

As if all of this is not enough--it was also reported recently that the Government now has designs on limiting fishing and has also taken an interest at moving into the realm of Internet broadband as well. The FCC has turned its attention into swiping a large part of the bandwidth in this transmittal realm, which begs the point that we have learned by slow necessity over time --that being--anytime Progressive Governance turrets its leering gaze into one particular sector--look out! Something is going to be coddled, which then turns into a squeeze, which then turns into a grip, which then turns into a suffocating embrace of coiled constriction. Then and only then is the item of interest devoured--headfirst always, and then slowly digested and made a part of the consuming "Authority."

The Statist Python of Constriction

It is the gorgingly unrepentant "Python of Statist Governance." The bigger it is, the larger its victims. This can be seen by the recently devoured American car manufacturers. In addition, and just like the Python, current Government's hunger knows no lessening of ambition; its capacity to devour is only limited by the size and the climate in effect at the time of consumption. This is, most likely, why the banks were able to resist and be disgorged by the Python's efforts. The Insurance Companies seem in a continually coiled dance of enmity with the python.

Never knowing whether they wish to mate or battle with the cunning and yet sloth python, which often seems to hunt only for the thrill of the hunt. However, the hunting expedition for the elusive Healthcare "Big Game" has always seemed to slip from the Python's coils, perhaps owing to its mammoth proportion of 1/6 th of the largest economy on the planet, in addition to its "current" worldclass standing of quality.

But now, the Python of Governance is ravenous for "the Big Game" and has nearly amassed the numbers that it needs in order to encoil and slowly devour its nearly defenseless prey. Stopping at nothing to achieve its task by any means necessary.

The US Constitution on Passage of Law

The Democrats' efforts at creatively passing Healthcare and absorbing it while not actually voting would be comical were it not so terrifying. The "Slaughter Solution" will try to pass the Senate bill along with separate revisions to the bill by voting only on the revisions. Pelosi has coined this unconstitutional trick "the Self-Executing Rule," which, no doubt, is also a creative allusion to the destiny of the Democratic Party come November. But in fact, Article 1, Section 7 of the US Constitution states the following:

"Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it..."

The Constitution, along with the Procedural Rules are very clear on both conferencing and on reconciliation. The fact that a Simple Majority must exist within both the House and the Senate to pass a Bill has not changed. Many pundits have stated that bills in the past have been made into law without voting, and yet, we have been unable to find a particular case where a major (if not up-heaving) legislative construct--which massively impacts the entire nation, such as this--has been "Demon Passed,"...oh...wait, no, that's "Deem and Pass." There have been many, many measures by both Republicans and Democrats over many, many years where small insertional amendments were added to a bill and were then "Deemed Passed" without voting--but never, ever in the history of this nation has any type of comprehensive major legislation such as the Healthcare bill been forced through in this manner. I would challenge anyone to prove this particular fact wrong.

Further, those who would argue the inverse of this have yet to offer up any clear precedence or actual legislation backing their argument with regard to this particular set of circumstances. Finally, one must remember that even were the House to pass the Bill with revisions, the Bill would now be required to be taken up again in the Senate.

Passing Comprehensive Legislation Without Voting Is Unlawful

Truthfully, there appears to be no legal way to pass non-budgetary and comprehensive "deemed legislation" without both the House and the Senate finally voting on the same exact bill. The rules as it regards the altering of any non-budgetary bill still require that any changes must be finally voted upon by both chambers. Some have also brought up the Unanimous Consensus clause which exists in the Senate, and yet even here passage requires 60 votes rather than a Simple Majority. Finally, it must be remembered that even were the House to pass the Senate bill with revisions--this then would require the Senate to take up the bill again whether by conference or by reconciliation. So even here, nothing is final.

Our Private Healthcare Saved by Abortion?

Now, I know that I am most likely preaching to the choir; however, I cannot fail to note yet again that at no time in this country's history have the American people been forced to continually undergo such damaging legislation on a repeated basis. The United States has never been more divided and yet more united in the singular convictions of the populace. There remain some few who would think to oppress the will of the People, even at the sacrifice of logic. The bellwether of abortion has, even now, weighed in heavily as certain Democrats refuse to allow federally funded abortions as a part of the means to single payer healthcare. Many individuals seem confused as to why abortion is so reviled, while many others will sacrifice themselves in a means to defeat it.

The question that many ask concerns why what "some" would refer to as a "clinical procedure" is so dreaded. On a Constitutional basis it is somewhat complicated, as we must weigh the rights of the individual woman (and perhaps even the father, Heaven forbid), against the rights of the unborn baby. On a religious and moral basis, the answer seems quite clear that the wanton taking of innocent life is simply wrong. On a Liberal "secular rights" basis, the answer is self-evident to the "anything goes mindset" that prevails. So we are left with a number of often ideological arguments battling one against the other. Which answer is Constitutionally proper and right? No one can deny that a young woman is often reviled for her moral decision to allow life at the demise of her reputation. There does, therefore, seem to be a double standard at play among those who revile abortion and, here again, revile the young woman for making the decision for life that ultimately brands her with a scarlet letter. How is it that we can revile what is a brave and moral decision regardless of the offending event?

No one seems to wish to allow that the passions at work within a healthy and vital human being are always subject to control when they often (by accident or otherwise) are not--at least not easily. But there are also those who simply choose abortion as if it were no more than a bout of flu that requires expellation. I often find it bizarre that the determinant of criminal abortion, as in the case of law, can be manifested by whether or not the individual in question used some arbitrary time limit and chose to have the "offending growth" removed by a doctor, as opposed to naturally allowing the child to gestate and be brought into being within a bathroom at the Senior Prom--and then left to expire in shock from both child and mother in what promises to be a criminal investigation.

Lawful Ideosyncracies

When we look at the idiosyncrasies of the law, it becomes easier to come to a somewhat more valid conclusion. If, indeed, the law frowns on the killing of a child based upon an arbitrary determinate of age, such as in abortion (the first trimester is commonly the determinant for abortion, but not always, so one can kill within the first three months?), then we would appear to have faulty logic at play. If, here again, the law determines that it is lawful for an individual to take life as long as said individual has a medical degree, then once again we have a fault in the law. (Why does the holding of a degree sanction the taking of life?) And finally, when we look at the murder of a pregnant woman-- is not often the baby considered within a second count of murder? A fault in the law yet again if a desired child is murdered as opposed to the undesired child who is snatched from the womb. (Lacy Peterson is a painful example of the taking of TWO lives--TWO counts of murder. Too bad Mr. Peterson was not a doctor, one supposes.)

Ultimately, the Constitutional Right to Life should go to the innocent despite of or in conclusion to the methodology of the law as it reacts to abortion not performed by a Licensed Practitioner, and herein lies the rub. But in the same vein, those who revile abortion and then also revile excessively those who might choose life--despite the absence of a vow--perhaps need to take a second look at what seems to be weak logic--not withstanding the moral implications.

Isn't it fascinating that the future of American Healthcare may be decided based upon the Constitutional Rights of the innocent and unborn?

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

As Americans carry on with their combined and heroic efforts to battle their way out of the economic doldrums which are increasingly bolstered (if not impeded) by those in power, new and fascinating developments continue to emerge--much like fish turdles bobbling to the surface. The Democrats, in an incessant stream of ethics violations, have been very busy little piggies these past few years, it would appear, in their self-proclaimed efforts at cleaning out the "swampland" that is Washington, DC.

The President, along with Harry Reid, had promised a "new beginning" in presidential relations with the American People. But over time, and since the Inauguration was "consummated," the Citizenry has become a bit weary of playing the Bride to Obama's Groom. In fact Nancy Pelosi, at the inception of the Democrat's legislative takeover of Congress, had proclaimed that the Liberal Democrats would usher in "a new age":

"And in so doing, we keep our promise to drain the swamp that is Washington, D.C., to let sunshine disinfect the Congress. We have promised the highest ethical standard, and we will deliver it, in an open and honest government."

So what happened, Madam Speaker? One can only guess that the "swamp land" proved too much of a temptation to the "better Swines of their nature," and that Congress simply could not resist the opportunity to hog-wallow in the dankest and most putrid mudfests on the continent. This proclaimed drainage, in fact, only tainted further, and Congress, in turn, has become infected by a truer "Swinish Pandemic" than any the populace might ever have suffered. This can be seen by the continually worsening outrage of excesses that the 111th Congress has drunkenly borne, while graciously allotting the resultant hangover to the nation's citizenry to bear. The array of Democrats at odds with ethical compunction goes from the bottom-most purveyors to the very tip-top--even to the powerful Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

The CBO Has Detected B.O. in This Bill

We have also been treated to the rather unsurprising revelation that the CBO's initial deficit estimates were "a bit low"on the President's budgetary deficit figures. In fact, virtually every original dollar figure estimate that the Administration has put out for "its take" on the "New Deal" (which we shall now call the "New Bill") has turned out to be "overly conservative" in each of its gross underestimations. The new projections by the CBO, which currently assumes no other social programs will be passed, states that the "New Bill" figure is about $ 1.2 Trillion higher than prior estimates for the next 10 years.

As a result, I have consulted with our staff to take a serious look at a possible new business enterprise of manufacturing wheel barrows. This, as a result of what promises to be a shortage of wheeled cart-like constructs that will be in clear demand for hauling around the bushels of dollars (which will be needed) in order to go grocery shopping and the like--"Cash and Carry," as it were. Assuming we still can afford electricity, an electric model is also in the offing for the non-tree hugging folks.

But as our riches and our rights are continually drained away, we at least have the solace of that age-old recreational act of "fishing"--well--OK, at least for a little while longer since His Majesty "The Fisher King" has decreed that he will now exert efforts at controlling if not curtailing the art of " angling." One supposes breathing is next in order to wipe out our Carbon Dioxide proliferation. ( The trees are going to be really pissed!)

Our Globe Is, Like, Really Cool...

We would be remiss if we did not also report that the "Global Warming Data Hoax," which was revealed about 14 days ago, has finally been reported by the American Media..,well sort of, anyway. A news report from the NY Times titled "Climate Scientists starting to Fight Back" has indicated that the Scientists, in essence, have "had enough of the abuse that has been heaped upon them just because of a few central lies" (paraphrased) and will now be mounting an aggressive effort to strike back. Their preferred weapon of retaliative choice? Well...umm..."admit their mistakes, open up their data and reshape the way that they work ." Ouch! Now that's just not fair! Please, oh please, don't hurt us with your truthful data...

If I may, dear, dear bright fellows of Science Fiction-- your prescribed method of fighting back sounds painfully like you have not learned your lessons as of yet. You propose to fight back with a weapon that you threw down and left rusting in the snow long, long ago. That weapon will not function any longer. Why not choose a newer, sleeker weapon in an effort to shore up the "actual data" which was, in fact, at odds with the prior fiction? The updated research should try to prove that the globe is now cooling and that we must ready ourselves for what could be the true tragedy.

This, my egalitarian egg-headed friends, could enrich you beyond the dreams of avarice, even while the President has recently reasserted his aims at battling Global Warming via new taxation. Just think of the energy, fossil fuel, agricultural and food processing companies which might come your way in order to fight the scourge of climate change that is Global Cooling. Shortened growing seasons, humans freezing in moderate climes--why the golden scientific dividends could be staggering in the riches that would be produced....Hey! just saying--if you intend to continue your fouled research, you at least need to change the story around a bit--maybe make a movie--2013 perhaps? Or we can bring in Geneticists who can program our genes to grow us a plush coat of fur and increase our blubber. Just think of the fashion implications--not to mention the boost in government research grants.

Rahm Gets Physical with His Massa

However, as the Climate Grifters and Scient-agonists now palpitatively muse over the possibilities of Global Cooling, we find a new menace in our midst. Just when we thought it safe to begin showering again without fear of being brutalized by some psychopathic silhouette wielding a pointy instrument, the news comes out about a new and comparably terrifying shower scene--if not for different reasons. Rahm Emanuel, whose penchant for foul language and dead fish gift arrangements is well known, has emerged yet again. This time the President's Chief of Staff allegedly undertook a naked confrontation on the forcibly retiring Rep. Eric Massa "while Massa was showering."

Massa described the aggressive event with the thoroughly naked Emanual as Emanuel was poking Massa in the chest and denouncing Massa for his "missing" vote. We can only assume that Emanuel used his finger for said "poking," as the Administration continually seems to degrade in its efforts to have its way. However, leaving the musings of one old and classic horror film, we cannot help but draw additional correlations to a newer horror genre.

Septic Legislation, The "End" Result

This new genre is most commonly known to the American people as the Healthcare Bill. This particularly suspenseful realm reminds us of any one of several even more terrifying horror movies than the last one mentioned. The abomination that is the Healthcare Bill can be likened to the frighteningly grotesque beast that amazingly survives all manner of seeming deaths. No matter whether we burn it up, beat it to the point of mangling it, chop it up and throw it into the sea, melt it in molten lava--even cram it into a spacecraft and launch it into the sun...IT KEEPS COMING BACK ! They should call this particular bill "The Michael Myers Commemorative Healthcare Bill" in its dogged determination to never, ever leave its poor victims alone.

There appears to be no known cure for this wretched idea of socially rationed medicine that the world has adopted to the ultimate chagrin of each of its citizens. The word that appears to be oozing out now is that the Senate Bill will be voted on by the House and...Viola! Obamacare is born! But wait, not quite so fast. You see, the Democrats in the House do not like the Senate Bill, so, therefore the Senate Bill must be "doctored." Typically, the House would amend the Senate Bill, vote on it and then send it back to the Senate for a passing vote as a result of the House changes; however, in this case the changes that the House would make would never be passed through the Senate, and the Senate no longer holds a Super Majority (due to Senator Scott Brown) So the Dems have a bit of a quandary, it would appear.

If the House alterations to the Bill are never passed by the Senate then, hmm... surely the Democrats can find some way to subvert the 234 year old historical process of legislation...Eureka! New twist; old idea! They will follow an unconstitutional route around the rules to get the thing passed at the bidding of the "Messiah Himself" (so how could it be wrong)? If you can't pass it naturally, then you can now take the Democratic equivalent of a "laxative" in the form of Reconciliation and force it through--may not come out in the typical method, but by golly it will come out. Indeed, it is striking that whether by laxative or by Reconciliation the results, in this case, will be indistinguishable.

Non-Budgetary Reconciliation is Unconstitutional

Reconciliation is a relatively new process in US History. The Congressional Budget Act of 1974 was passed as a budgetary facilitating measure that actually eased Senate voting contentiousness with regard to budgetary, tax and other spending measures. Therefore, in a point of clarification, the Budgetary Reconciliation Act was never intended for any type of legislation other than spending, tax and budget changes or reforms. Prior to this 1974 Act, spending measures required the same 2/3 of a majority vote as any law.

Now, however, with regard to any spending measure, the Senate would only require a simple majority of 51 votes or more making it immune to Filibuster. The problem here is that any major healthcare ( or any other type) of non-budgetary legislation doesn't fall within the parameters of the 1974 Budget Act. As a result of this fact--the current implication of trying to pass the Senate Bill via Reconciliation with House alterations in lieu of a New Senate vote is unconstitutional and could subject members in authority to various disciplinary corrections were the effort at reconciliational passage actually to be made.

A Byrd in the Hand...

The Byrd Rule, which has been much bandied about of late, simply provides a test to determine whether an item within the budgetary Reconciliation process could be considered "extraneous" by way of six rules--each pointing to the budgetary process rather than any specific changes in law. "Extraneous," in fact, seems to be the non-existent crack that they wish to slip through and use budgetary reconciliation in order to pass new law. Senator Byrd has addressed the meaning of the 1974 Reconciliation Act in a letter published in the Washington Post of 2009. Within the letter, Sen. Byrd plainly states that the intent of the 1974 Act, which he helped pass, clearly limited its scope to budgetary processes only.

Ladies and Gentlemen, intent within legal circles is beyond massive when establishing both lawfulness and Constitutionality. The facts and language within the 1974 Act, in addition to the Byrd Rule make it very clear that Reconciliation regarding non-budgetary legislation--such as healthcare--is unlawful and therefore cannot be used--except by risk of legal proceedings against such authors at some future point--in addition to repeal due to unconstitutionality. In addition, at last count no less than 17 States' Attorney Generals have signed on to the eventuality of a Federal Lawsuit, by the States, in which the constitutionality of government-forced healthcare will be challenged as unlawful--assuming it were to pass.

And then there is also the possibility that the President and the Senate, after promising to alter the bill to meet House specifications via Reconciliation, will then think better of that fact due to the above explanations. The Bill would then immediately go to the President--over the howls of protests from the House--and be signed into law by the President. This would be the only legal way to pass the Healthcare Bill as it stands.

Courage Is Fear in Action

There are many Democrats, in fact, who are reportedly frozen with fear as to the implications of angering Speaker Pelosi and the Powers-that-Be, were they to vote against the Bill in support of their constituents. These reports point to a number of member Democrats simply going along with the vote rather then being left out in the cold by the Democratic Party Power Brokers with little support.

To these weak-kneed individuals, we need only point out a number of other Americans of similar representative position who also faced a crisis of being left out in the cold, as well--but with far different ramifications. In fact, rather than being left out of committees or cut off from Congressional dollars as a result of their actions, these individuals had a far heftier price to pay.

During the time of the of the American Revolution, these "politicians" were ordered by their "estranged Authorities" to stand down from their efforts or suffer capture and hanging at risk of Treason to the King. Some were, in fact, pursued, caught and executed. Thomas Jefferson was nearly captured at one of his estates but was able to race away into the forests even as the British Enemy came upon his home. History has also noted Benjamin Franklin declaring "we shall hang together or we shall hang separately" at his signing of the Declaration of Independence.

So, to those Politicians who are afraid of their vengeful, grumpy Leaders--at risk of the rights and the Liberties of the American people--which seem more and more in peril--we, your humble constituents, can only point out--as one of your esteemed colleagues once stated: "We feel your pain."

As our Executive and Legislative branches plot nefarious schemes in order to pass a healthcare bill which the American people have clearly denounced, we begin to see why The Tea Party Movement has proliferated into a huge phenomenon. But as with all shifts in the political tides, there are always those who resist and even denigrate such movements despite their being the essence of American Government.

Whether they be ideologically opposed or otherwise, the Media in our Nation has come out largely in disfavor of Tea Parties, which only proves our ongoing argument that the Media is, indeed, Liberally-biased and largely against common values--which ultimately runs counter to the Nation's overall interests.

Frank Rich's recent New York Times article--which vilifies a majority of Americans who count themselves as members of the Tea Party Movement--seems to illustrate how misguided the Leftward truly are in their understanding of this Nation. In fact, Rich's column could be counted as nothing more than a left-leaning monumental tower of Pisa to Liberal misinformation.

Rich states, in his opening, that "no one knows what history will make of the present" in regards to the events that are shaping the Nation's future. This misguided column even launches from the gate in error, which provides only a poor foundation upon which to build a shabbily constructed outhouse of ideas. To wit, I would be more than happy to give Rich at least a glimpse into the future as it regards history.

Hatching Suicide Planes from the "Tea Party Incubator"

The simple answer is that History will most likely view this period as a time when normal Americans re-engaged with their Governance which lost its way over the past 5 years. History will further note that as our economy sank further into the gallows of financial despair, the Democratically-controlled Legislative and Executive branches of our Government were busily trying to take advantage of the unfortunate situation by passing ream after ream of legislation that could only further damage the economy--if not ignoring it entirely.

How am I doing so far Frank?

I should also point out that history will note that the Democrats' ongoing efforts to jam healthcare through at any cost also acts as a figurative punctuation mark on what has been the most invasive, damaging and economically devastating legislative cycle that this Nation has yet seen.

Rich goes on to state, furthering his Tea Party-obsessed and deranged connection by way of explanation, that a tragic murder-suicide by a disturbed individual who had crashed his plane into an IRS building was the most significant political event of February 2010.

Excuse me Frank, not to embarrass you, Sir, but there was that teeny-tiny matter of the seating of a Massachusetts Republican Senator to a position that had been occupied by the extremely liberal Senator Ted Kennedy in an extremely Liberal state for three decades which also happened in February. Another small (apparently to Liberals) matter was the construct of fraudulent Global Warming data that was one of the pillars of the President's impetus.

These were just a couple of the many significant February events that are apparently un-noteworthy--let's not forget the prolonged aftermath of the State of the Union speech which called everyone concerned out for not playing by the rules of Presidential Fiat and played heavily into February political posturing--despite having occurred at January's end. And yet, to address Rich's statement concerning the "suicide plane"--the question that boils up to the top of my curiosity level would be "since when did an angry individual with a plane become a political event"? News-worthy yes, but political event?

Can I Have a Medium Fry with Your Column?

In fact, Rich's reference to Stack as a "Tax Protester" falls far short of Stack's list of grievances with life in general; Stack seemed more to have problems with the Government's methodology of collection used against him rather than the actual tax system.

Stack had extreme issues, also, with Capitalism and actually derided Capitalists as "gullible" and "greedy"-- Now who does this sound like?

Tea Partiers, in fact, are all for our Capitalist system.

Stack indicated in his suicide letter that he also had problems with the current American Medical System. Now, who else do we know of, Mr. Rich, who also has problems with the American Medical System?

Tea Partiers, in fact, are for our American Medical System.

Stack also intimated a hatred of George Bush and his cronies. Now, who, that we know of, despises George Bush and his "cronies"?

When we painfully read through Stack's manifesto, the one thing that we took away from it was that this disturbed individual actually belonged in the Radical Left-Wing Fringe. Doubtful? This was the last line in his suicide note:

"The Communist's Creed: From each according to his ability to each according to his need."

"The Capitalist's Creed: From each according to his gullibility to each according to his Greed."

So far, Mr. Rich your argument is not holding very much if any, water. With the above quote from Stack himself, I believe I can victoriously rest our case in this regard.

OH! This Is just too "Rich"....

Then Rich actually, on the one hand, admits that it would be "inaccurate" to call Stack a Tea Partier--while on the other hand, disingenuously characterizing Stack as a member of the Anti-Government Right by emphasizing Stack's "frothing Anti-Government, anti-tax rage" overlap with the Tea Party banner. Our conclusion? As it is in Big Government--so it is with Left-Leaning Opinion Propagandists. The Liberals taketh and the Liberals giveth away--it is, indeed, a specialty with them to be sure in their Redistribution Methodology of both facts and funds.

If we are to begin grouping various political and antisocial tendencies in the form of over-laps, Mr. Rich, as bell-weather events for politically-ill harbingers, then I would submit, Sir, that your Democrats and their other "Extremely Leftist Political Groups of Interest" Brethren are going to have even bigger problems come November due to these self-same "over-laps" that you find so compellingly connected.

Rich goes on to state that because a few individuals who identify both with the Tea Party Movement and Stack's hatred of Government in general built a shrine on Facebook to Stack, the entire Tea Party Movement is, in essence, just like Stack--along with the politicians who felt pity for Stack.

Once again Mr. Rich, we could construe your faulty logic, in a balancing equation, as vilification of an Administration which--having been sympathized with by "The People's Communist Party"-- commiserates with much of The Administration's positions.

Are you certain that you want to go there, Frank? This ground you are trying to stand on is shakier than the Pacific Ring of Fire at present.

Cry Havoc, Loose the Racist Card of Yore

Next, Rich's Column descends into the same paranoid if not schizophrenic diatribe as it formerly disavowed when Rich parlays an Extreme Left Reporter's efforts at linking the big tent Tea Party Group to far-right members of extremist fringe movements which are of an anti-government bent. Rich goes on to state that it only takes a few "self-styled Patriots" to sow havoc--to which we can easily counter that it only takes a few "self-styled anti-patriots" to sow the same such havoc with our country. This can already be seen by looking at where the Nation is today, Mr. Rich. In a tandem sense, never has this Nation been more politically divided nor more economically wounded than it is currently. Mr. Rich seems to be one of many suffering from the "Liberal Ostrichitus" Pandemic.

Rich then skates even further out on thin ice by stating of Tea Partiers: "They really do hate all of Washington and if they hate Obama more than the Republican establishment, it's only by a hair or two." Then Rich throws out the "Racist Card" yet again by stating that Obama "get's extra demerits for his race in some circles, otherwise he and Bush would be in a dead heat" (of dislike). Rich, why not yank out the "Liberal hallucinogenic drip line" of Mainstream Media that is feeding your insanity of falsehoods?! You cannot possibly believe that Tea Party members place Republicans on the same Constitutionally-damning level as the Liberals in charge. (At least Krugman and Dionne believe in their faulty notions).

As to the racist ploy, I can only say that we have all grown truly weary of Liberals stating that the Nation is racist when better than half of its citizens voted for Obama. Regardless, then Rich goes nuclear and states that the Tea Party is actually the Party of No Government at all or; more dramatically, they are actually "Anarchists."

Now we begin to see where the true fear lies in these Liberal-Misanthropic Party Apologists.

We May Need a Combine for the Democrat Harvest This Year...

In fact, Tea Partiers do not hate their Government. On the contrary, Tea Party members LOVE their Government so much--they want it back! The Tea Party Movement does not wish to eliminate taxes, they simply want a say in how their tax money is spent. Indeed, we all know that America's Government is what makes this Nation exceptional. We revere our Founding Fathers who were Politicians. The Tea Party Movement simply sees that its Government has temporarily moved away from being a Government of, by, and for The People and has become a Government of, by, and for the Government--along with being a Bully of Redistribution.

We have seen extremes of unchecked power and an arrogance of power that is not in keeping with this Country's historical traditions. We are our Government, in essence, and we are a Free Market Economy, for better or for worse, and will forcefully make our "Collective Will" known when it appears that we have been totally disregarded by those in positions of Legislative Authority. What the Liberals forget is that "We The People" have the ultimate Legislative Authority and will exercise our ultimate authority in the upcoming season of harvest.

Rich goes on trying to drive a wedge between the Republicans and the Tea Party Members when, in fact, no such discontent exists between the two. There are fiscally Conservative Democrats, Libertarians, Republicans, Blacks, Hispanics, Chinese, Japanese--you name it --they are here within this movement. Most have come together in order to make their wisdom of the following fact known in earnest:

The Government can no longer leverage the future of this country without massively lowering the exceptional standard of living and the quality of life that this nation has come to know. Consequently, we may yet be the first generation to leave the State of Our Union in a far worse condition than when it came into our responsibility to preserve and further--absent of our immediately altering course now.

A Willingness to Die for One's Country Is Not Terrorism

Rich then makes what has fast become a collection of comical if not disingenuous blunders by stating that the passion on the Right has migrated to the Tea Party's Counter-conservatism. The Tea Party, Mr. Rich, is like a Fourth of July Fireworks display of Conservatism. Allow me to educate your apparent lacking erudition, Mr. Rich, by stating that the word "counter" means "in opposition to" or "directly opposite" that which it is conjoined with. Therefore, your usage of "counter-conservatism" to describe the Tea Party would mean that the Tea Parties belong to the Liberals as being opposites of Conservatives. Do you, Mr. Rich, actually believe that Tea Parties are a Liberal uprising?

Rich goes on to state (after he has appointed Ron Paul as the Conservative's Fearless Leader) that Paul was called out by none other than a Wall Street Journal editorialist that "Paul's followers include conspiracy theorists, anti-government zealots, 9/11 truthers and assorted cadres of the obsessed and deranged." This, to me, sounds like the current slate of Administration Czars.

After another exercise in down-talking blogs, talk radio and a number of other individuals who run counter to Rich's politics, Rich states that one Idaho retiree--Pam Stout--who cast her lot with Glenn Beck's 9/12 project--stated that, "I would give up my life for my country" when she fretted about another Civil War being in the offing. Stout had said, "I don't see us being the ones to start it." Rich then claims that Stout was echoing Palin's memorable declaration at the National Tea Party Convention earlier this past month. Palin declared at the end of her speech: "I will live, I will die for the people of America. . .whatever I can do to help."

Rich idiotically closes by stating, "it's enough to make you wonder who is palling around with terrorists now."

To that, I would simply say that Rich's apparent unwillingness to die for his country is a symptom of what this Country can ill afford. In fact, virtually every one of our heroes on the battlefield, in uniform of public service and those who have come home from battle were, indeed, willing to die for their country--and many have.

Suggesting that an individual's proclamation of being "willing to live and die for their Country" is somehow wrong only shows how misguided many in this Country have become in their diseased values of political correctness and Liberty bashing apathy.

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it."

As the President and the Democrats hysterically wander about while trying to solve an exponentially increasing dirge of problems, which their actions have helped to create, we cannot help but point out what the true problem now appears to be. What seems lacking in the endeavors of a "certain few" these days is the simple and yet admittedly brilliant application of common sense as it applies to America--but especially to government. While many in Academia find the all-encompassing version of intelligence that is common sense a bit typical, if not rhetorical, we would beg to differ.

In fact, the artful application of common sense seems to be a lost if not mystical talent these days. The elite and all-knowing Academians--who had virtually every answer for the American People prior to the election--can now be found to be totally void of any true solutions when it comes to creatively curing even the simplest of problems.

Truthfully, every action that the bumbling Liberal Democrats have undertaken seems to set off a reactionary response of unintended consequences in a true domino effect of ever-increasing collateral damage. It's almost as if a "Black Hole" sits at the center of our governance absorbing all of the common sense in and around the area and then ejecting it into some theoretical plane that exists on an opposite and yet geographically equidistant destination--such as Australia perhaps.

Hello Dalai!

This "Black Hole" of common sense even applies to the giving of a simple gift. For example, the Dalai Lama typically wears a sleeveless robe as his traditional garb. One would presuppose that this simple fact might give mental pause to the White House's departing gift of a set of cuff links for Heavens sake. Additionally, previous gifts by the Obama White house to others have included an iPod loaded with Broadway tunes for the British Queen--we can all certainly see her Highness be-bopping to American show tunes with ear pods blazing. But lets not forget the "economical" boxset of 25 movie DVD's for British prime Minister Gordon Brown that--alas-- will not even function in a typical United Kingdom DVD player (Skeet anyone)?

At any rate and in keeping with the President's keen sense of gift giving, here are a few more thoughtful ideas--characteristically devoid of common sense--for future White House VIP Visitors:

In another "Ode to Common Sense," the Stimulus Bill--which was supposed to have cured high unemployment--has vacuumed up so much of the private market equity that businesses and individuals now have difficult, if not impossible, access to necessary loans. In addition, the Draconian regulatory over-correction of Government Banking Bureaucrats--to those businesses and even individuals who can actually afford such loans--has massively impacted the ability of each to qualify for them according to Loan Underwriters.

Meanwhile, the characteristic ambivalence in attitude towards business of this "Union Loving" Government in general has soured any optimistic economic outlook and, therefore, jobs creation. Further, the budgets that the President has both employed and proposed dramatically increase spending to the point of further (if not fatally) damaging America's financial foundations.

Rather than cutting the extreme spending back down in these unprecedented times, the President, as a means to figure out what to do about "his spending," has launched a Blue Ribbon Commission in order to study the problem of "his spending." We would recommend the less expensive alternative of therapy for Compulsive Spending Disorder but--hey!--that's just us.

The Pied Piper of Washington

The fact that Obama has, on many previous occasions, lambasted other Politicians' efforts at employing Study Commissions was not lost on us. The comical and yet revealing truth is that the President has in his own words "many times" disavowed employing commissions to study various Government problems as "the oldest political trick in the book at passing the buck."

To wit, Academians study problems; Executives and Leaders act on them. This, in essence, is the problematic issue of the Theoretical Academian Presidency that we seem to be all suffering through. In retrospect, I have often toyed with the implausible possibility that maybe Dick Cheney or Karl Rove cleverly orchestrated Obama's rise and eventual election in order to clear all of the blasted Liberals out of Washington--which seems to be working quite well were that actually the case. The Conservative's Secret Agent Man--Barack Obama--as the Pied Piper of Liberal politicians: He will, unwittingly, lead them all back out of Washington's seats of power come November.

Regarding the Administration's massive spending problem, our idea would be for the President to fly over to New Jersey, carefully circumventing Manhattan this time, sit down with Conservative Governor Chris Christie and begin taking notes. Christie, in a brilliant display of common sense, has immediately honed into the perplexing problem of spending too much with a rare if not brilliant solution: Stop spending so much and start cutting. Wow! Now, why couldn't the Democrats think of that? The New Jersey Conservative Governor has already found a number of problems built into the system that are tearing New Jersey apart from within, and he will most likely save New Jersey from bankruptcy.

The Blair Wish Project

Also in the offing this week, we have the Presidents Bi-Partisan Summit at the Blair House as it regards the dreaded Healthcare Bill. The Democrats called for the Republican's ideas on healthcare, carefully considered each one and then promptly dismissed them all in what turned out to be a lurid spectacle of "Group Legislative Masturbation" in its ultimate outcome.

Surprisingly, however, the White House did actually post their 11 page wish-list version of healthcare online this time prior to the event. The President's vague bill proposal essentially hobbled together one monster bill from the other two bills. CBO refused to score the President's plan as a result. The Republicans, meanwhile, had been neurotically trying to figure out whether they should even attend since a Reconciliation House Vote of 51 members is the admitted goal as a means to an end.

Characteristically, Obama dominated the event in true Grand Potentate fashion endearingly reminding us all, as he does daily, that he is the President. The Democrats received double the talk time of the Republicans who were graciously given slightly less time than the Prez. In total the Republicans were granted 25% of the total time allowed to make their remarks.

Many Republicans viewed the summit as a possible ambush but planned to go regardless. Once the event got under way the Republicans seemed to outflank the Democrats at every engagement in a brilliant display of logic and knowledge. Eric Cantor had the President so befuddled, in a dazzling display of commonsensical intelligence, that Obama began mumbling about meat inspectors in a vague if not misguided attempt at drawing food inspection correlations with the Healthcare Bill's premise. Ultimately it appears that the Republicans took the day on Healthcare, if that means anything at this point.

When Science becomes Fiction...

Also in the news this week, the President, and a prodigious host of Liberal Media Acolytes have come out in clueless defense of what is now officially "The Cult" of unnaturalism that is the "Anthropogenic Global Warming Belief System." In our column of last week, we reported the facts around several recent revelations concerning the affirmation and confession of Professor Phil Jones that his Global Warming data was, indeed, fictional.

The UN Chief of the IPCC--among many others--has now resigned in dishonor at the findings of the Media as it pursues the increasingly damning evidence of Global Warming science being nothing more than a fairy tale.

The members of the participating Governments and the Media who supported the fraudulent science have failed to shift their beliefs to a more pragmatic stance despite all of the revelations that have come out--therefore rendering their validity in greater peril. In that vein, we have seen and heard a number of Global Warming Jihadist and Environmental Evangelists come out in ever greater attacks on man in deference to nature. The rabid environmentalists seem bent upon laying every single cold snap, hot snap, drought, cyclone and winter storm squarely at the feet of human activity-- even after decrying individual weather events as not being actual "climate."

We have also recently found that the cited increase--by certain scientists--in sea levels over the next few decades has been recanted, no doubt, due to the measuring sticks geographic placement being toyed with much as the temperature data. We also have the recent report of the oceans as being the active atmospheric carbon regulator--meaning that excess atmospheric carbon is absorbed via the ocean rather than floating around to create ever more fictional global havoc. But the Marxist arm of environmentalism seems intent upon blaming planet overcrowding and population density, in conjunction with modern industrial advances, as being the Chief Protagonist of Global Warming fiction as if at any moment we will become so over-bloated as a population that we might tumble off the planet.

Planet Not Actually Overcrowded... and Here's Why

In fact, were you to take the total number of persons on the planet, which is 6.8 Billion, and plop them all down in the United States, not only would they enjoy expansive liberties for at least awhile, they would also have plenty of room. The population density would actually work out to roughly 1,830 persons per square mile. Once again--if every person on the planet lived in the United States the population would be proportionally manageable leaving all of the other continents barren of human life.

Now I would wager that this would come as a surprise to many who have been led to believe by the Media and Environmentalists that we are packed in like sardines on the planet. So in comparative terms, we would have the same approximate population density as Copenhagen, Denmark, which, ironically, was the sight of the United Nations Global Warming Conference. For comparative scale, here are a few other population densities:

New York City: Density of 71,201 persons per square mile

Paris France: Density of 65,700 persons per square mile

Washington, DC: Density of 9,316 persons per square mile

Los Angeles, CA: Density of 8,174 persons per square mile

Charlotte, NC: Density of 2,838 persons per square mile

Anchorage, Alaska: Density of 165 persons per square mile

Death Valley, California: Density of .22 persons per square mile

Knowing that most of our Liberal Media and our Liberal Academia seem to proliferate in cities of scale, it is no wonder that they have no true nor realistic knowledge of the actual size of the planet. Nor of how minuscule the population density of the world is as a whole. When looking at the numbers from a holistic scale rather than from what you see from your 70 story apartment tower, the size and scope of human population is very small indeed. Understanding the scope of population densities, however, does lead us into a somewhat better understanding of how great or how little of an impact we can and do actually have on the "entire" environment as a world populace.

New Questions

As Americans become evermore angry at the abysmal lack of leadership on the economy--while Politicians continue their toying around with healthcare--new questions seem to be forming in the collective minds of the American people. We can see unemployment continuing to head upwards, companies still unable to meaningfully hire, while the Big Banks are posting stellar earnings reports and delivering huge employee bonuses once again.

The questions seem to be: Is the meltdown of 2008 the reason for our continued economic failure? Or is it the Liberals in charge of Washington and their damaging legislative prowess? Would we still be in this mess if a Republican had been elected? Is it Obama's ideology that has so terribly soured our consumer and business confidence?

These, I think, are questions that can only be answered by history.

Lack of Common Sense or Suffusion of Insanity ?

Common sense, as the old saying goes, states that doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results is the definition of insanity. Now the Government must change its focus to doing what is necessary to install confidence in business--and therefore in consumers, as well--rather than taking it away. Companies are fearful of changes that produce unmeasurable results and simply cannot plan their way out of this quagmire as it stands.

Mr. President: Tear down that budget! The time to act is now. The time to reverse the insane leveraging of the future of this nation is now. The manufacturing of a healthcare problem, Global Warming problem--essentially every single hallmark of your administration--is obviously nothing more than an obfuscation of the dire straits that this nation now finds itself in.

Our new system of socialization at the very top of industry and at the very bottom of the citizenry simply leaves the struggling middle class of this country with a bill that it cannot pay, and the consequences of this will be extreme.

This current configuration of targeted social safety net programs for the selected favored is simply not equitable and is unsustainable as a nation. One need only look at the country of Greece to see its quick-acting results.